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becky becky
 
December 24, 2008 12:34 AM

Facebook requests are gone - does anyone know more?

I had approximately 1200 requests/invitations in Facebook that I hadn't yet accepted but was slowly working my way through. When I just now logged in, it appears that almost all are gone. I have about 80 last split between different applications. All I found in Google was a reference to a discussion board where other people have complained about the same problem but there's no additional information or announcement from Facebook.

Wouldn't they have sent people a warning before doing something so drastic?
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tracebooks tracebooks
 
December 24, 2008 01:05 AM
I'd noticed it, but since I'm not terribly active there it didn't bother me too much. Do you know how long it's been since you last checked? For me it was about 3 weeks ago that I approved some things.

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becky becky
 
December 24, 2008 01:14 AM
I've definitely checked within the last couple days. I think yesterday during the day was the last I checked so probably about 30 hours ago.

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ssharon ssharon
 
December 24, 2008 02:56 AM
I check facebook daily and also noticed that half of my requests are gone. It was also the first time I was prompted for my username and password on the facebook iphone app in as long as I can remember.

I'm surprised that I haven't heard this complaint from more people. My first guess was that they ignore requests that are 3 months old or older as only my oldest requests are gone.

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becky becky
 
December 24, 2008 03:05 AM
If it was an issue with older requests than I would have expected it to seem more like cycling through (a few drop off the end while some new ones come in). I had a fairly large number of recently requests which are gone. To me, it seems like a massive purge that either was completely unintentional or else Facebook users were not informed of site changes. Perhaps they had a storage issue but in that case, it would have seemed far wiser for them to notify users via email with a one week warning such that things you really wanted to accept could have been accepted.

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ssharon ssharon
 
December 24, 2008 04:06 AM
update: all my missing requests are back.

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becky becky
 
December 24, 2008 03:09 PM
Mine still aren't back. However sometimes when I accept a couple, I then see that I still have the same number of waiting requests so it seems like perhaps those spaces are filled by old ones. Then after ignoring a bunch it stayed the same so I'm still not sure what's going on...

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mdntrdyr mdntrdyr
 
December 24, 2008 08:04 PM
Mine are not back either. And I have only been on Facebook about a month. I had about 500 and now it is only 100.

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facebookun... facebookun...
 
December 29, 2008 11:03 AM
I've emailed facebook but they have made actually contacting them extremely difficult and the email address I used I found only by googling and coming across this website. No reply as yet.. it's been several hours and in that time our ad campaigns have continued to run and I can't stop them or change them.

http://www.facebookunmasked.com

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